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Athletes and wrestlers in ancient times alongside a football player in a modern stadium

The World Cup as a Parable: From the Ancient Arena to the Grass Field

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From ceremonial battles, through the games in ancient Greece and the mass performances in Rome, to the World Cup in soccer: since its beginning, sport has embodied the tension between power and restraint, between nationalism and brotherhood, and between the will to win and
Ancient Greek culture. Photograph by © Giannis Kassis, reproduced

Genetic research: Residents of the Mani region in southern Greece represent one of the genetically oldest populations in Europe

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A new genetic study has revealed that the inhabitants of the Inner Mani region, a remote region at the southernmost tip of Europe in the Peloponnese, Greece, represent one of the most genetically unique populations on the continent.
Ancient medicines. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Blessed is the believer - on the roots of modern medicine

Why did the Hippocratic doctors use a dangerous method of purification for centuries to cure diseases?
The rare sight. Photo by Emil Eljam, Antiquities Authority

Has a tomb of an "escort woman" (the Taira) from 2,300 years ago been discovered in Jerusalem?

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A grave where the remains of a woman were discovered with a rare mirror next to her opens an extraordinary window into customs that were 'imported' to Israel with the Hellenistic occupation * It seems that the person buried was a young woman of Greek origin, who accompanied an army officer or
A statue of the Greek philosopher Aristotle. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Am Yisrael sings 24: Even in ancient times, Jewish music was influenced by Greek music

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It has already been mentioned several times the brave connection forged between Greek and Hellenistic philosophy and music - the Pythagorean school that attributed a supreme moral value to music, the Platonic school that insisted on the relationship between music and nature
The Olympic flag during the Vancouver Winter Games, 2010. From Wikipedia

Olympics: the story of five rings

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Visitors look at a fragment of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, believed to be the earliest surviving mechanical computing device. The photo was taken in a museum in Athens, Greece. Photo: shutterstock

Four amazing astronomical discoveries from ancient Greece

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Female figures competing in the Olympic Games in ancient Greece on an ancient urn. Photo: Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology

Gendered Paralympic Games

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The Pleiades cluster, from a digital sky survey. Photo: Credit: NASA/ESA/AURA/Caltech

Astronomers have revealed the date a poem was written in ancient Greece

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The moon hides the sun during a solar eclipse and what you see is only a small part of the sun's halo. Illustration: shutterstock

2,600 years since the first successful scientific prediction - the solar eclipse of Thales that caused a truce

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Spotlight - the archaeological time tunnel: XNUMXD software allows archaeologists to reconstruct ancient buildings / Eitan Crane

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female dancers A painting on an urn originating in ancient Greece

The 24th muscle song - dancing with virgins

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The cover of the book "Against the Gods"

The spirits of the Greeks and the role of the dice - first chapter in the book Against the Gods

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The Persian messengers. From Wikipedia

How Persian chauvinism saved Western culture

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Greek urn with a painting of runners in the Panathletic Games, 530 BC. From Wikipedia

Song of the Muscles 21 - To the places, the gym go!

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The discus thrower from ancient Greece, as it appears on an item in the Louvre Museum in Paris

The Muscle Song 12 - The relationship of Maccabean literature to the Jerusalem gymnasium, or pornography and geography

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A theater site in the city of Tzur. From Wikipedia

The Muscle Song 14th - Olympics in Tyre

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discus thrower

The XNUMXth Muscle Song - Did they throw a discus in Jerusalem? or "disc herniation"

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A Greek stamp issued a little late (in honor of the 1896 Olympic Games)

The 12th muscle song - this is not just a drawing

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The remains of the gymnasium in Epidaurus. From Wikimedia Commons

The Muscle Song 11th - The Jerusalem Gymnasium (B) - Its location and "price"

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discus thrower

The Song of the Muscles Chapter 10 - Gymnasium in Jerusalem, isn't it?! (Part I)

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A gold coin minted by Ptolemy V and discovered in the north of the country in 2010 depicts a queen - possibly Arsinoe II, who married her brother Ptolemy II. Photo: Antiquities Authority

A very rare gold coin about 2200 years old was discovered in excavations in the north

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Diagram of the Antikythera mechanism

Antikythera mechanism: the computer is two thousand years old this year, and why the industrial revolution didn't start in ancient Greece

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Organizational culture in Xenophon's army

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Astronomers: The first marathon was in August - and the runner probably died of fever

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

The Great Library of Alexandria - an institution from the days of the ancient world was re-inaugurated after 1,600 years

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A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

New evidence for the existence of the Ahshorosh canal

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